Hello staff! We wanted to report in about a professional development opportunity from earlier this month. Elisabeth Wright (VI), Claudia Farias-Cowling (AL), Kassy Nicholson (NW) and I attended the Young Adult Library Services Association Symposium in Louisville, KY from November 3-5. The focus for this year’s conference was helping all teens build a better future and brought together several hundred public and school librarians, educators, students, publishers, and authors for the common goal of helping libraries support the needs of teens in our communities. We’re going to share the highlights and summaries of some of the best sessions we attended. Let us know what you think in the comments. – Emily Williams (EPD)
Submitted by morgan.jones on Tue, 06/13/2017 - 14:24
I had the opportunity to attend the Library Design Institute, a two-day event created by Library Journal and hosted by the Columbus Metropolitan Library (CML) System in Columbus, Ohio.
Hi staff! We wanted to report in about a professional development opportunity from last month. Tim Rogers, Kristin Williamson, and I attended the Public Library Think Tank presented by Library Journal and School Library Journal in Miami from March 9-10. The focus for this small conference was on what "literacy" means today and how libraries can be leaders in initiatives to foster literacy in all its forms in our communities.
As librarians in Public libraries, we interact with a wide range of people, from the homeless to lawyers to students to retirees. Most days you never know who you will come in contact with, so being able to address our biases (conscious and unconscious) helps us to serve the public. With everything that has been going on in the world today it’s was a pretty timely workshop. When you think about biases much of the focus is on the most obvious …gender, race, disability, age and economics, but there are some biases that don’t fit those categories.
The Library Corporation User (TLCU) conference was held in Charleston, South Carolina, October 18th-21st. I was very excited to be able to attend the conference. It was nice not being the “new” customer this year as I was able to visit with staff from other CARL libraries that I had met last year and communicated with throughout the year.
Submitted by risa.jensen-jones on Wed, 11/18/2015 - 10:27
I recently attended the annual TLCU Conference in Charleston, SC. This is a user conference for libraries that are currently using TLC software, both the CARLX software (which is for larger libraries/systems) and the LibrarySolutions software (which is for smaller libraries/school libraries). Throughout the conference, we had the opportunity to meet and talk with the people behind the software which really helped make a personal connection to TLC.
I recently attended TLCU in Charleston, South Carolina. It was interesting to meet others from across the country and a few from overseas who also use CarlX and hear about things happening in their libraries. There are quite a few exciting things that TLC is working on to improve the CarlX system.
I participated in the PLA webinar, "Don't Let the Bed Bugs Bite" facilitated by Wichita Public Library Collection Development Manager, Sarah Kitrell. Sarah shared her experience with identifying and treating bed bugs in a library setting when the situation occurred at her branch.
According to a 2015 Bugs Without Borders Survey, 99.6% of pest professional have treated bed bugs in the past year, significantly higher than 15 years ago when only 25% of pest professionals had treated for bed bugs.
I attended an OLA workshop on October 22 called "Build Your Own Intellectual Freedom Training." I wanted to go to this because while we have a lot of different trainings, we don't have one that's exclusively devoted to this topic.
It was a really small group--only about 6 people. I was the only person from MLS there.
Hello staff! We wanted to report in about a professional development opportunity from earlier this month. Elisabeth Wright (VI), Claudia Farias-Cowling (AL), Kassy Nicholson (NW) and I attended the Young Adult Library Services Association Symposium in Louisville, KY from November 3-5. The focus for this year’s conference was helping all teens build a better future and brought together several hundred public and school librarians, educators, students, publishers, and authors for the common goal of helping libraries support the needs of teens in our communities. We’re going to share the highlights and summaries of some of the best sessions we attended. Let us know what you think in the comments. – Emily Williams (EPD)
